Bells sounded the alarm on global warming

The Ecological & Environmental Panel of the Church in Society Committee called on parish churches in Ireland to ring their bells as a warning about global warming on the Global Day of Action on Climate Change on 8 December.   The call to ring the alarm is the Eco-panel's contribution to an international day of protest that coincided with the Bali talks on climate change. The aim of the action was to draw the issue to the attention of local politicians and call on them to do more about it. At 2pm the bells of churches around Ireland rang out to signal that the world must warm by no more than two degrees centigrade if mankind is to continue to live here with any level of comfort and safety. Many of the parishes took part around the Diocese including, Abbeystrewery, Kilgarriff, Carrigrohane, Douglas with Frankfield and Cloyne. The Rev’d David Humphries, Chairman of the Ecological and Environmental Panel urged parishes to show their support by ringing their bells and by attending the public events. He says: "Global warming isn't just an international issue, it's something we should be engaged with at the national and local level too. We want to draw the attention of our politicians to this issue. But we also want parishes to become involved. Every member of the Church of Ireland has a part to play in ensuring the sustainability of our environment." In Dublin, a petition will be handed to a government representative, demanding strong political action to stop the planet burning and give us a future worth having.

Dean Marley and his son ring out the warning in Midleton.

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